I'm no Speilburg but...

Max has therapy on Fridays both physical and speech. During speech therapy we worked with a new toy and learned about putting things "in" and how I can work with him on repetition on a few basic words. Amy is his speech therapist (love her!) and Jamie is his physical therapist (love her!). Jamie came in the afternoon and we really worked on Max's fine motor skills. We worked with some Play Doh and let him have a snack of applesauce. Max doesn't eat with a spoon or fork still and I'm really ready for that. We practiced for a while and the end result was messy but good. We worked on it again last night while he was eating dinner and I wanted to show you all his work in progress. He started winking like the true playa that he is too.

Hurry up and get here MRI!

I know that some of you know that Maxwell has an MRI coming up on the 26th of this month. I was starting to get concerned because he has been falling over a lot. And not just falling over because he is a toddler but he will simply be sitting down and just fall over. He is having some symptoms that either I have never noticed before or are just beginning to show up. This was the best picture I could get of the injuries from one of his recent falls. He was playing in the hall and tipped over cutting his chin. Luckily it was a small cut and only required our friend Scooby Doo to cover the cut. I called the doctor and they tried moving up the MRI but there weren't any openings. This wait is really starting to kill me, but we have made it this far so what's another week I guess. Also for those of you who are curious the weird rash that Max had ended up being something viral that is going around. Thanks for all of the suggestions!

New Kitchen Art

Here is something that I have been wanting to make that I saw on a blog I read. I made some minor adjustments and am pretty excited about what I came up with. I haven't hung it yet so we'll see how I actual like it once it's up.

What is this?

Max keeps getting what looks like hives or a heat rash the past 2 days. Yesterday Max had them on his legs and today is even worse. It's on his arms and legs and looks bad. Tell me what you think. My vote is heat rash but what's your vote? Whoever figures out what this is gets a nickel and a hug!

Balloons

Max and I took a little trip to the Dollar Tree today. He fell in love with the Mylar balloons. So I came across those punching balloons that have a rubber band attached. I blew it up and was happy to see that he figured it out quick. Only problem was he kept laying on the balloon and I was worried that I was going to have an "after" picture of the balloon.

Children Please Avert Your Eyes!

I went to go check on Maxwell as usual on my way to bed last night and this is how I found him. I guess he wants to start sleeping naked to air out. I'm sorry to inform him that isn't going to happen. Lucky for me his diaper was wet and his bed was dry so I at least avoided that disaster. One day he might kill me for this picture especially if it makes it into his senior yearbook, but it makes me laugh!

Riddle me this.

Max before "the change" happened. You can see he made quite a mess before hand. Max left the room and I noticed I had not seen of heard from him. A quite child is a messy child in my experience. Oy!

Why did none of you inform me that a minor change to Maxwell's room would bring a nervous brake down from Max?!?! I thought we had built a relationship on trust and understanding. I scratch your back and you scratch mine! Apparently I was wrong. OR I should have shared my plans with you and you could have told me what a bad idea this was. Whats done is done and now the Browns are all suffering the consequences. Here's what happened.  First of all Max's bed has been away from the wall for a little bit. Our house is not big therefore are room aren't either. At first we had Maxwell's bed against the corner and that was very close to his window. We didn't realize it at first because he was so small but doing this was a bad plan because any time he didn't think he had to lay down he would look out the window. At one point he tore down the mini blinds that were there. So after that we moved his bed down the wall so he couldn't reach the window. Blast! That didn't work either!!! He could reach the light switch with the bed being moved. It took effort at first but he mastered it. I think he would use the light to accompany the music box on his bed. We tried covering it taping it but nothing worked. So I finally got so ticked that I moved the bed away from all walls and it sat taking up a ton of space in the middle of his room. After putting away his laundry this weekend I got sick of the bed being in the way so I started to pull everything out to move the dresser and bed. Max seemed to like it and not have a problem until... it was time for bed. You would have thought I cut Steve (his favorite blanket) right up in front of him. He cried so hard I thought he might never go to sleep. That has happened for the past few days, however, it does seem to be getting better. I'll keep you posted!

Here is the room after I rearranged everything. Remind me to keep it this way. Also I was told a story about how my sweet husband FLIPPED when Yaya sold his favorite car. It reminded me how much Jeff hates change. It goes to prove that Max might look like me but acts just like daddy!

craftastic!

Here are my newest projects. I have been dying to make a camera strap cover for those fancy cameras that some people have. Unfortunately I don't have one but lucky for my sister and sister in law they do and they get to be my guinea pig. I made the terry cloth one for my sister and the pink one is for my sister in law. First thing I learned is it is going to take some major convincing to ever make one out of terry cloth again. It's nice and padded so it will be comfortable but very hard to sew. I know you all have seen my tutu's before but this is for Maxwell's physical therapist Jamie's little girl Callie. Let's see what if anything I can create next week.

The Browns

I know it may seem strange that I am posting 3 videos, but this is the only way that I could post a video this long. I have been feeling sentimental lately with everything that has been happening with Maxwell. I made this video for him right after his 1st birthday. I wanted him to know the story of his mommy and daddy and how much we love each other and him. I'm proud of it, but then again it stars the sweetest most handsome little boy I know. Life throws so many things our way and I'm learning this year that with Jeff we are able to do anything. Also The Browns have it pretty good. We are happy and working on getting healthy. Here's to all the good! Also keep in mind that this is a total of about 20 minutes so only watch it if you have a minute.

Happy 4th of July

Max likes to help daddy water the new tree.



I had so many great plans for this holiday. I'm proud of my town and love being from Edmond. Edmond loves the 4th of July and does it up right. On Saturday we woke up and planned to go to the parade in downtown. I thought that the streets wouldn't be shut down until about 30 minutes before the parade, but I was very wrong. The streets started shutting down an hour early. Papa Mike was with us and we tried FOREVER to find a place and finally called it quits. We called Jeff since he didn't want to go to the parade and went to get breakfast. So first event can be considered a miss. Then on Saturday night we had my dad over for dinner and a movie. I made a great all American dish... enchiladas! Well maybe not all American but definitely delicious! Then Sunday on the 4th I had to work a 12 hour shift and got off at 6pm. We had planned to get ice cream and go watch the fireworks. Mother Nature had a different idea though. It rained ALL day. they still did fireworks, but they didn't start until 10pm. And I had no desire to keep Max up late just to sit in mud in the rain. So I had great intentions of playing outside in Maxwell's new water toys, eating ice cream, going to the parade and seeing fireworks. Maybe next year will be the year to do it up right!